Edward S. Herman

Edward S. Herman is an economist, media analyst and writer on foreign affairs. After obtaining a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, he taught for many years in the Finance Department at the Wharton School and in the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to studies on corporate control and power (a 1981 volume is entitled Corporate Control, Corporate Power), and specific types of financial institution (mutual funds, bank trust departments, savings and loan associations), he authored or co-authored a series of books on terrorism, human rights, and the political economy of the mass media. Among his major titles are The Real Terror Network, Beyond Hypocrisy (with a Doublespeak Dictionary), Demonstration Elections (with Frank Brodhead), Manufacturing Consent (with Noam Chomsky), The Srebrenica Massacre (an edited volume), and The Politics of Genocide and Enduring Lies: The Rwandan Genocide in the Propaganda System, 20 Years Later (both with David Peterson).